|Full description='Tor' lets users communicate anonymously on the Internet. It can anonymize web browsing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and more. It hides communications by bouncing them around a distributed network of servers called onion routers -- this system makes it hard for recipients, observers, and even the onion routers themselves to track the source of the stream.

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|Full description=Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol.

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|Homepage URL=https://torproject.org/

|User level=none

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|Status=Live

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|VCS checkout command=git clone https://git.torproject.org/tor.git

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|Homepage URL=http://tor.eff.org/

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|VCS checkout command=cvs.seul.org:/home/or/cvsroot

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|Computer languages=C

|Computer languages=C

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|Documentation note=User guide included and available in HTML format from http://tor.eff.org/documentation.html; Developer guide available in HTML format from http://tor.eff.org/howitworks.html

Revision as of 11:02, 16 August 2014

Tor

https://torproject.org/Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol.

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